The Daily Telegraph used to be all about the Tory party. Now it’s about its billionaire ownersSupreme court judges are “Enemies of the people” (Daily Mail) and Brexit rebel MPs are “mutineers”,with front-page pictures added for identification and vilification purposes (the Telegraph). But such problems, of course, and are not just about the nature of the assault: they also tell us something about the newspapers that launch them.
Tony Gallagher,editor of the Sun, rowed swiftly to tweet rescue of the Telegraph’s mutinous editorial crew final week. He couldn’t see that anything they had done was incorrect – which is exciting because Tony went from the Mail to edit the Telegraph before emerging on top of the Bun. In short, or either he’s covered the spectrum – or the spectrum itself has begun to fold into a single snarl.
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Source: guardian.co.uk